How can the taste of chicken stewed with mushrooms be described in four words, that is, it is fresh and fragrant.

Chicken stewed with mushrooms is a Northeastern stew. It is usually stewed with dried mushrooms (hazelnut mushrooms), chicken and vermicelli. The hazelnut mushrooms can bring out the fresh flavor of the chicken, and the vermicelli is smooth and firm. Chicken stewed with mushrooms not only reminds people of a delicious dish, but also gives people a simple and friendly feeling. Maybe it's not eye-catching, and the materials aren't that luxurious, but its fragrance can float far away. This rustic fragrance is the taste of home.

In the ranking of Northeastern stews, the one that always tops the list is chicken stewed with mushrooms. In the early years of Shenyang, chicken stewed with mushrooms was the main dish for New Year's Eve, and it was also a signature dish for entertaining guests. There was an old saying: "When a young man comes into the house, the chicken's soul will die." That is to say, when a new man comes back to his parents' house with his wife, the father-in-law will make chicken stewed with mushrooms.

How to stew chicken with mushrooms to make it more delicious?

Chicken with mushrooms must be blanched, otherwise the soup will not taste good and will have a fishy smell. Put water in the pot, cut the chicken into pieces about four centimeters, add cold water to the pot, turn on high heat, add cooking wine and Sichuan peppercorns and bring to a boil, then wash the chicken pieces with warm water, remove the blood foam, and more importantly, remove the broken bones Scumbag.

After the mushrooms are dried in cold water, wash them several times, especially the sand. Wild mushrooms will have a lot of sand when they are dried, so they must be washed and stewed like this. The chicken stewed with mushrooms will taste just right. Remember to keep the oil temperature high, otherwise the chicken will taste like rapeseed oil.

You don’t have to be picky about the spices. If you don’t have them, you can just add one or two star anise. If you don’t have Huadiao wine, you can add other rice wine, cooking wine or beer. If the water is not enough during the process, you can add boiling water appropriately, but not cold water.